US Patent Issued to University of Central Florida Research Foundation on May 20 for "System for extracting water from lunar regolith and associated method" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,514, issued on May 20, was assigned to University of Central Florida Research Foundation Inc. (Orlando, Fla.).

"System for extracting water from lunar regolith and associated method" was invented by Philip Metzger (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system extracts water from lunar regolith and includes a regolith intake having a digging bucket that collects lunar regolith soil and a gravel separator that separates and discharges gravel and passes a mixture of ice-regolith powder having ice grains that are about 10-100 microns along the conveyor. A pneumatic separator receives the ice-regolith powder and pneumatically s...